Prominent religious leaders would have us believe it's God. He (sic) is punishing us for opening borders to the poor, for Roe v. Wade, for legalizing same sex marriages, or for allowing women access to contraception. Let's face it: that's nonsense. It turns Jesus' embodiment of the God of love on its head. It turns God into a pathological killer -- a cruel punishing father like too many of our own dads.
The real culprit preventing us from addressing climate change and the causes of the refugee crisis is our government. Our elected politicians are truly in the pockets of Big Oil, the Banksters, narco-criminals and other fiscal behemoths whose eyes are fixed firmly on short-term gains, even if it means their own children and grandchildren will experience environmental apocalypse.
What I'm saying is that this government has no validity. How dare a small group of climate-change Philistines take it upon themselves to decide the fate of the entire planet in the face of overwhelming evidence contradicting their stupidity?
It all has me wondering when our fellow peasants who don't share Jesus' commitment to non-violence will get out their pitchforks and storm the White House and other seats of government.
Remember: It was Thomas Jefferson who advised periodic revolution. He said: "What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. . . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
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